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· Public charity

NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc

Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination and accelerate wellbeing, education, and economic security of black people and all persons of color.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$686k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$6.9MCommunity Improvement$6.8MCivil Rights$2.2MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$719kPhilanthropy$370kArts & Culture$287kEmployment$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 110 grants below total $7,405,496, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,551,996 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,146,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k78 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.6M
$25,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND$686,054
BEATS ON THE STREETS INC$634,758
BEATS ON THE STREETS INC DBA WE ARE SOMEBODY$500,000
BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA$486,316
BLACK LEADERSHIP PENNSYLVANIA$400,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$339,987
GWINNETT COUNTY NAACP$300,000
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER$276,948
1 HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY$220,341
STARKVEGAS JUNETEENTH COMMITTEE FOR UNITY$172,787
WORKING AMERICA$170,000
5139-B HILLSBOROUGH BRANCH$150,000
6820-B HOUSTON YOUTH$150,000
PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC$138,614
THE PENNY FOUNDATION$106,325
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAITH IN ACTION NEVADA: $75k → 10%THE FEELINGS COMPANY: $10k → 15%TIDES CENTER: $80k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $48k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

NAACP Empowerment Programs Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 18 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
513

Total granted

$4.0M
$9.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-32%
+28%

Still filing today

39%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EG
    EQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $786k · revenue -70% · 58% of their budget
  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $636k · revenue -61%
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $577k · revenue -28%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for Social Impact
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue ×22
  • NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -91%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $310k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
2
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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3
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
4
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
5
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
6
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

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7
Florida Rising Inc

Florida rising, inc. is an independent political organization bringing together black and brown communities to seize power and govern to advance social, economic and racial justice across florida.

Civil Rights
8
New Pennsylvania Project

The New Pennsylvania Project (NPP) is a voting rights organization with a

Civil Rights
9
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
10
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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11
Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
12
North Carolina Voter Project

Amplify unrepresented voices in north carolina elections through voter education and registration.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; the most unlike its peers is National Council of Negro Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 623 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
17/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $450,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLEBlack Leadership Pennsylvania: $400,000 · OtherFoundation for Social Impact: $350,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $300,000 · Other+165 more: $6,409,608 · Other+165 moreEQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC: $786,054 · Civil RightsEQUAL GROUND EDUC…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $576,948 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TO…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $350,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJE…PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $138,614 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE …WISCONSIN VOICES INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PROJECT FUND: $90,433 · Civil Rights+6 more: $235,800 · Civil Rights+6 moreBEATS ON THE STREET INC: $1,134,758 · Public BenefitBEATS ON THE…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $339,987 · Public BenefitNEO Philanth…CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR P…+1 more: $30,000 · Public BenefitTIDES FOUNDATION: $926,966 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUND…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $225,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY I…OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $175,000 · PhilanthropyOHIO COALIT…THE PENNY FOUNDATION: $106,325 · PhilanthropyTHE PENNY F…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $90,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated…+2 more: $50,128 · PhilanthropyBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $636,316 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $310,000 · EducationNextgen Alumni Leadership Council: $59,052 · Education+1 more: $15,000 · Education1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $245,341 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTIDES CENTER: $127,597 · Human ServicesACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $75,000 · Human Services
Other$7,909,608Civil Rights$2,277,849Public Benefit$1,704,745Philanthropy$1,573,419Education$1,020,368Arts & Culture$345,341Human Services$202,597

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEATS ON THE STREET INC: $1,134,758 over 1y, 100% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $926,966 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC: $786,054 over 2y, 58% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $636,316 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $576,948 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBlack Leadership Pennsylvania: $400,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $350,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $339,987 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $310,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $245,341 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $175,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetWORKING AMERICA: $170,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $138,614 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNational Council of Negro Women Inc: $128,461 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $127,597 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $106,325 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VOTER PROJECT FUND: $90,433 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $90,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTING IN COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN ORGANIZING NORTHERN NEVADA: $75,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLIVE FREE CHICAGO: $70,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetORGANIZE TENNESSEE: $65,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNextgen Alumni Leadership Council: $59,052 over 1y, 46% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALABAMA FORWARD: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCIVIC TN: $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetIN THIS TOGETHER NEPA INC: $29,628 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RECREATION EDUCATION ARTS TECHNOLOGY & ENTERPRISE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST: $22,490 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFair Elections Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWoke Vote: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOP LADIES OF DISTINCTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNTIL FREEDOM INC: $10,800 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BEATS ON THE STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds Black Leadership Pennsylvania ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Social Impact ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds National Council of Negro Women Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE PENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN VOICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Bvm Capacity Building…Lee Initiative IncBlack Voters Matter F…Black Economic Counci…Southern Coalition fo…Mary Reynolds Babcock…State VoicesNEO Philanthropy IncVoter Registration Pr…Goodnation Foundation…Civic NationFeed the Soul Foundat…
Bvm Capacity Building Institute IncGA29.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Lee Initiative Inc · Black Voters Matter Fund Inc · Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · State Voices · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Voter Registration Project · Goodnation Foundation Inc · Civic Nation · Feed the Soul Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 623 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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